Add another voice asking for sources, but if true, this is great. IMO, we need a strong 50 state strategy ala Howard Dean’s strategy from the mid to late 2000s. Abandoning that to focus on swing districts is a huge part of why we’re where we are at right now, and why so many Americans think Democrats don’t work for them.

We need to be doing this more. Obviously, we need to prioritise our spending, but if there’s a chance, like somebody’s only 2 points down next to an incumbent Trumper, throw some money their way and let’s see what sticks? Lots of people getting frustrated with the Shitgibbon and his merry band of miscreants. Maybe we can get some wins and put the screws to those shitheads.

This shouldn’t even be up for discussion. Don’t diddle the kids. Don’t force people to have sex if they don’t want to. Don’t have sex with someone you have an unequal relationship with, like teacher and student, coach and player, or employer/employee. Don’t expect sex from someone. Unless you’re in your teens (and not 18 or 19, either), teens are off your dating card. None of this should be controversial at all!!! Ug!

That it is shows that America is not a moral country and never has been.

If you really wanted to do something about Mamdani winning NYC Mayor, wouldn’t you do it way before the day before the election? Or is that just crazy talk?

This is an excellent point. Trump brought out 77.3 million votes for his coalition. Meanwhile, 75.0m voted Harris, and 3.0 million voted third party (mix of ideologies, not all would-be Harris votes). Add to that 90+ million non-voters, which probably has some fraction of the 6 or so million voters who voted for Biden in 2020 who didn’t turn out for Harris. Convince 29k people in Wisconsin, 80k in Michigan, 120k in Pennsylvania, and like 45k in Nevada to turn out for Harris, and we’re not having this conversation right now. We don’t need all the cult to switch votes. Frankly, 1% swapping or 2% actually turning out is all we need. And people dooming about how set the Trumpers are seem to be working more to depress enthusiasm amongst Blue Team players than actually save democracy.

How I explain Self-Hosting to the non-techies in my life: “This is me practicing my trade. As a server and systems admin, I need servers and systems under my control that I can experiment with, set up, configure, break, and fix, and self-hosting has a benefit that instead of four computers, two by my wife and two by me, each hosting its own data, I can set up a network storage device where both of us can store our data.” Any more than that, and I probably won’t go into detail, because I don’t ask my accountant friends to go into the weeds about their career and return that favour by not going into the weeds about my own. :)

Absolutely. And while the person is filibustering, he should be placed in a small room, with a lectern, cameras, and a microphone, and must speak on the topic at hand. No reading from the phone book. You best be talking about the bill you’re stopping, or any supporter of that bill can immediately call for a vote. And you lecturing doesn’t mean the Senate’s business stops. Other bills can be called and the only way you get to vote is have someone take over the stand for you while you go vote. Regardless of who’s up there, you gotta keep talking about the bill. Make filibusters put skin in the game.

The Midterms will represent a potential check on Trump’s power, though we still have major hurdles in the Supreme Court and Trump himself. I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump keeps doing what he wants under cover of a Reich-Wing Supreme Court and with a threat of an armed revolt of his MAGA base. The hope is that we can limp through the next two years after the Shitgibbon gets put in check, forcing him to run around the board trying more and more unhinged things until we checkmate him in 28. The reality is that he’s still got plenty of pieces and isn’t afraid to flip the board if he doesn’t get what he wants.

But maybe if he and his followers see tens of millions of people standing up when he tries it, they might fuck off back to the holes they came from.

Open message to Vance:

When you say kid, I think 4 to 10 years old. A tween is 11 or 12 years old. A teen is 13 to 18. Technically, a 19 year old is also a teenager, but they’re also a young adult. Nobody older than that gets the ‘kid’ pass from me.

These people were in their 20s and 30s. They are grown-ass adults who should have responsibilities of grown-ass adults. If you say ‘I love Hitler,’ at any age, you get another title from me. “Shithead.” And that transcends age.

Now fuck off, couch fucker.

And before people start saying this is somehow new, I bet if we had group chat apps back in the 70s and 80s, we’d have the exact same messages from THOSE then “Young Republicans.”

This shit is baked into the GQP, like it was in the Dixiecrats in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and like it was in the Confederates in the 1860s.

It may be, but it’s also against the rules here, specifically Rule 6. And having tangled with the mod staff in the past, they are hardest on the Left on this. Do you want to get muzzled for 7 days? Because JohnnyFlapHoleSeed did the above and got muzzled for 7 days.

The modlog suggests that this guy advocated for violence across three comments, which got him a 7 day ban. I would like to see more even enforcement of the rules here, including holding Trumpers and MAGAts accountable when they do the same thing, but this is an open and closed case of rule violations. I’ve censored the posts below but if you want to see what he said, click here and search for him by name.

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There is a very serious rot in the USA. It’s the kind of rot that says empathy is a sin and that kindness is weakness. It’s the kind of rot that says hate and bigotry are good, and kindness and acceptance are what’s wrong with society. That America is best when it is what Liberals say is worst. And don’t delude yourself. The rot is much higher than the 40% cited in this poll, for 100% of the Republicans and a decent chunk of independents would vote for the shitgibbon over anything on the Left because they’ve drank the koolaid from Team Red about Team Blue. And if that’s not bad enough, enough Team Blue has drunk the Russian koolaid and will stay home or vote third party to enable Team Red to steal things and break shit.

They’d rather a ‘childfucker-in-chief’ to borrow Steve’s line than have a Dem in charge. Both groups.

Came here to say this.

I know this is in jest, but it’s definitely something the shitheads would push. And my answer goes thusly:

No. The Economy hasn’t done a damn thing for me, and it’s done less for my wife. I’m treading water, unable to afford a house or a car on what was once an unfathomable sum of money when I was younger. It has done less for my wife, who relies on my job to keep a roof over her head. You want us to have kids? Reassure us that our kids will have a better life, and stop vampire-squidding us and sucking down every loose dollar.

100% gamer chick too. I’m lucky to have her, and even as we check out girls together, I just look, because I know I have a good girl at home. :)

Thanks for these. They don’t make it clear that Canada is a valid destination for LGBTQ+ folks to seek asylum from, but they do indicate that there is discussion in Canada. Have to see how the referenced cases go, though.

There’s this possible ending in Cyberpunk 2077 that I think speaks to how Billionaires view the world. The leader of the Japanese megacorp Arasaka is arguably the most powerful man in Japan, more-so than even the Japanese emperor. His company’s security forces includes an aircraft carrier, not to mention endless drones and faceless goons equipped with … if not the best technology on the planet, then the second best. And they’ve unlocked the technology of digitising a person’s consciousness and storing it.

The CEO’s son is a bit of a rebel, trying to undermine his father. He eventually gets very hands-on (integral part of the plot that your character witnesses first-hand early in the game) and bumps his father off and takes over Arasaka. And if you play the game a certain way, you reach an ending where the daughter of the CEO assists her dead father in … coopting the son’s body, displacing his consciousness, and ‘reincarnating’ in the son’s body, to continue his centuries of ownership of Arasaka.

This is fiction, but Cyberpunk is all about assuming the worst of our corporate overlords. I don’t think it’s an overreach.

My wife and I made the same decision. We joke that Octomom had our kids.

8 billion people call Earth home. As another commentor has said, we probably should have half that. Your choice and our choice not to have kids enables that, even if only stupid people reproduce. With how the world is turning out right now, I think we both made the right choice.

Just like the 1930s. By the time countries will open their doors to the oppressed in the USA, we’ll be rolling our own ovens here.

My google-fu hasn’t up to this point. In fact, I get lots of results saying that Americans are not welcome as asylum seekers in my googling. Your single link only shows places that take American immigrants, not places welcoming American refugees. In fact, New Zealand is suffering from a Conservative-inflicted recession that is making things difficult for immigrants and natives alike, and Australia has some serious restrictions on immigrants (a close friend of mine did that route and barely made the cut). And Canada? Despite a victory for the Liberal Party and ‘elbows up’ regarding American rhetoric, they still have lots of people angry about how immigration has been handled.

If you actually have links to help get victimised people out of the USA, maybe instead of ‘why don’t u google it urself’, maybe post those links. That’s FAR more helpful than the whole ‘go do it urself!’ response. :)